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Grant backs Human Race musical incubator
The Human Race Theatre Company has received a major grant to solidify its growing reputation for developing new musicals.
Announced Monday, Nov. 10, the gift of almost $94,000 from the Dayton-based Miriam Rosenthal Trust Fund will support two summer musical festivals, a Lovewell Institute educational theater program, two residencies and two major musical productions at The Loft Theatre between July 2009 and July 2010.
Company executive director Kevin Moore said “the huge vote of faith” means Dayton’s resident professional theater “can set up an entire pilot year of developing new works. It means we can build on all of the small things we’ve been able to do the past eight years — the workshops and residencies we’ve been able to do sporadically when the money has been available.”
Moore, a board member of the National Alliance for Musical Theater, has co-chaired the New York Festival for New Musicals the past two years.
He said he has modeled The Human Race’s musical incubator partially on Palo Alto Theatreworks in the Silicon Valley and Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut.
“There’s no reason we couldn’t do the same thing here,” Moore said. “We’ll need more funding to carry this forward, but this is an opportunity to build something new here.”
Richard C. McCauley, chairman of the Rosenthal Fund, expressed excitement “about the opportunity to identify The Human Race as a hub for new musical development and for local talent to be involved and exposed to professionals in this field.”
The Human Race has cultivated new shows through its Musical Theatre Workshop program. It has produced works by legends in the field, including Stephen Schwartz and Tom Jones, as well as emerging artists such as Joseph Thalken, Gregg Coffin and Rob Hartmann.
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